I asked for book recommendations earlier, and many wonderful people shared some really thoughtful suggestions. Posting the full list again here in case it helps someone else too 😊
Book suggestions:
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Calamitous Bob series – Alex Gilbert
- The Unconventional Heroes series – L. G. Estrella
- Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries – Dorothy L. Sayers
- A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
- Trader’s Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper (Quarter Share first) – Nathan Lowell
- A Practical Guide to Sorcery – Azalea Ellis
- The Books of the Raksura series – Martha Wells
- The Bourne Identity – Robert Ludlum
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- Wolf of the Plains – Conn Iggulden
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Dealing with Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede
- Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Tiffany Aching, etc.)
- Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
- The Painter of Battles – Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
- The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- City of Thieves – David Benioff
- All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
- The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski
- Till We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis
- The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
- Going Postal – Terry Pratchett
- Tiffany Aching series – Terry Pratchett
- The Uglies series – Scott Westerfeld
- Lore – Alexandra Bracken
- The Giver – Lois Lowry
- Douglas Adams (yes, the whale falling from the sky 😄)
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
- The Whispering Delulu – Dr. Sohil Makwana
- Daughter of Dragons trilogy – Jack Campbell
- Spirit’s Rebellious – Kahlil Gibran
- The Forerunner – Kahlil Gibran
- The Quiet Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
- Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend – Matthew Dicks
- The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
- The Time Keeper – Mitch Albom
- Trash – Andy Mulligan
- The Bear – Claire Cameron
- Wind Dancer – Chris Platt
- Marie Lu (excluding Red City)
- The Nightward – R. M. Garcia
- Shadow and Bone trilogy – Leigh Bardugo
- The Diviners series – Libba Bray
- The Lunar Chronicles (starts with Cinder)
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